The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what I liked in it.

I don't paint like a woman is supposed to paint. Thank God, art doesn't bother about things like that.

Art is two things: a search for a road and a search for freedom.

All experience is great providing you live through it. If it kills you, you've gone too far.

Whether I'm painting or not, I have this overweening interest in humanity. Even if I'm not working, I'm still analyzing people.

You know it's very hard to maintain a theory in the face of life that comes crashing about you.

Like Chekhov, I am a collector of souls... if I hadn't been an artist, I could have been a psychiatrist.

You can't leave humanity out. If you didn't have humanity, you wouldn't have anything.

Lucky for me, as old as I am, I can still change.

Cezanne said, 'I love to paint people who have grown old naturally in the country.' And I say I love to paint people who have been torn to shreds by the rat race in New York.

The place where I had freedom most was when I painted. I was completely and utterly myself.

When you begin to run after miracles you dehumanize yourself.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

80% of your problems are not PEOPLE problems ... they are SYSTEM problems, because systems create the behaviors of people.

My real name is Nils and Booboo is a childhood nickname. It's not two words or two capital B's, it's B-o-o-b-o-o.

I'm center left, but I think - most things, left on some, center on some, right on very few.

Don't be shy. Go for it and ask your crush out.

The man who acts never has any conscience; no one has any conscience but the man who thinks

There's nothing more oily and cynical in politics than telling the truth.

People aren't going to throw the kind of money at certain people that they used to.

Nobody in Hollywood ever sets out to make a bad movie ever but about 99% of the time, that's what happens.